Why you should create a Quiet Space in your home

You should create a quiet space to know God.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
-Psalm 46:10

This world can pretty much drown out any knowledge of the Holy.

Every day is a gift from God.

A quiet place reassures you that He lives.  A quiet place also reassures you that God cares about you personally.

You can create a quiet space anywhere in your home.  Whether you live in an apartment, studio or living with a relative, creating a space of solitude can be rejuvenation for your life.

Here are a few ways to create simple quiet spaces:

1.  Your night table can serve as a quiet space right next to your bed.  .You could simply add a Bible and a few inspirational books as well as pen and paper for notes.  When you awake in the morning, you are already in your quiet space!

2. Your patio can also serve as a quiet space.  Nature is a wonderful place to be when you want to get quiet and a patio is usually outside.  Adding a few plants and a small table for your Bible and a few books will lend to a peaceful place.

3.  A chair in the den can also serve as a quiet space.  The thing about using a family den is getting in the space early in the morning before anyone else gets up.

4.  The breakfast table or the dining room can also be used as a place to retreat to to have a few moments of solitude.

5.  Dad or mom's office can turn into a quiet space. Sometimes the family office works as a good quiet space...you just have to turn off all the computers and gadgets and stuff.

And here are a few verses to encourage you to seek the Lord and gain a knowledge of the Holy:

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord,...-2 Chronicles 20:3

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. -Psalm 9:10

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. -Psalm 14:2

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. -Psalm 27:8

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. -Psalm 27:8

As Christians, Christ leaves us this example from His own life in the book of Mark:

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.- Mark 1:35

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Mercy and Truth

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
-Psalm 25:10

Just kinda doodled out this verse when I saw it in the Bible.

Remember in this post, I said that when drawing out a Bible verse, start with what you can see first. The fist thing I saw was a path.

I really didn't know this verse until yesterday.

I am glad to have discovered it because it helps to make plain certain choices and situations in my own life.  You know how sometimes you want to know if the Lord is leading.  Well, this verse kinda helps me to see how He would lead.


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4 Tips on How to draw Bible Verses

If you have been following this blog for awhile, then you know that I love art and I love the Bible! That combo is happy happy for me.  I just need to add a little disclaimer that I am not perfect.

Okay so now that it's clear that I am not perfect here, I am going to tell you how I come up with ideas to draw along with a Bible verse.

Well, the first thing I do before reading the Bible is pray.

After that, I read the verse.  And usually when I read the verse, a word will stand out that I can draw. Take for instance chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians.  That chapter is about love.  When I think of love, I see hearts.

So I draw that one word that stands out.  In this case, it's hearts.  So, I draw hearts.

Then the verse goes on through telling what love is.  So, I add what love is beside each heart and voila a little artwork.

Let me demonstrate with another verse.  Let's take this verse in Isaiah:

Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.


So, this verse talks about high places.  Well, when I think of high places, I think of various things and also various situations.  Have you ever heard someone say "Take the high road".  I think of stuff like that as well.

But in this case, I was trying to scribble out a hot air balloon one night.  While I was trying to figure out how to make a hot air balloon, this verse in Isaiah came to mind so I wrote it at the bottom of the drawing.

So sometimes I can be drawing and a verse will come to my mind as well.

And there are times when I don't draw pictures, but just write a little summation of the verse.  You can see more of those summations here and here.

I hope this post helps you on your artful journey!

Here is a brief recap of  How to Draw Bible Verses:
1. Pray
2. Choose a word that stands out to you and draw that.
3. Draw a picture first and think of a verse to go along with that.
4. Write a summation of the verse in calligraphy or hand lettering.

Try it!  And let me know how it works for you!

Happy Drawing!

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Day 6 - Consider the Ant

I drew this picture awhile back.  I actually got the idea from a book that my youngest daughter has.  I liked the picture and thought the verse in Proverbs went well with it.

So the art lover in me drew it and hung it up in the house!

Simple powerpacked verse.

Have you ever seen ants in the summer? They are everywhere.  But when the fall comes they have their homes all made and you don't see them again until the next summer.

Great counsel for life. ...prepare.  and prepare some more.

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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Day 5 - How to understand life and the times we live in

The Bible has been everything that it says to me and more.  We know the verse that says "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" right? 

Well, the Bible has been just that a lamp to my feet in this world and a light to the ways  of life as well!!

The Bible has been my guide to health and life!  It has been my encouragement when life was just too tough,  The Bible has strengthened me and it has even shown me stuff that I thought God didn't know about.  And moments like that I know that God is near.  He is a Friend at all times.  He understands and in His own way, He can make sure that you know that.

But most of all the Bible has given me understanding and that is everything.

...I am understanding; I have strength. -Proverbs 8:14

What is the Bible to you?

The Bible has helped me to understand life.  And for that I am grateful.

I took these Bible studies here and I really enjoyed them.  Perhaps you may enjoy them as well.

I also went to a Prophecy Seminar and here are the Bible Studies that they used.

Here are the original videos made by the author, Gary Gibbs.  The videos are dated but the truth remains. You may enjoy them and find clarity to the books of Daniel and Revelation.  We can see the way things are going in this world and the only good thing I see is that God knows it all and in His love He has shared in His word what to expect and how to make it to heaven. 

If you take the studies, I hope that you enjoy them and gain clarity and understanding.

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Day 2 - Love really is all that

I am certain that it is not until you are in a position that you are called to exercise longsuffering that this text can ever really be understood.

I mean who doesn't like when someone forgives them.  Who doesn't like when someone forgives their debts?

But it's a totally different story when it is you that has to forgive someone.  You know when you are the one that has to forgive a debt.  Life looks pretty humbling on the other side of this verse.

I say humbling because love is humble.  It doesn't vaunt itself and it showly  ain't puffed up.

Love is quiet and it's humble.  It gives without any hidden agendas.  So you know that love can only come from One Source.  God is love. -1 John 4:8

And what about being kind to the one or one's that are unkind to you?  It is so easy to read and recite and dare I say write about love.

But that's what love looks like folks. ...it is somewhere suffering long with someone and hoping for the best.

Yes, love is somewhere being kind to those who are mean.  That's what love looks like.

And isn't God full of love to impart His love to us to give love.

That's what love looks like...giving, enduring and bearing.

Give more love than you exact.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity,

I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. -1 Corinthians 13

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